New Season of Putney Music Meetings Begins

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First up is violinist Jack Liebeck in conversation with Piers Lane

Jack Liebeck. Picture: Facebook

September 6, 2024

Putney Music has announced its programme of talks for its 2024/2025 season.

The series begins with violinist Jack Liebeck talking to the society’s Vice-President Piers Lane.

Londonborn, with German roots, Liebeck won a Classical Brit in the young British classical performer category in 2010. He was soloist on the score for the 2011 film Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and also on the Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated soundtrack for Anna Karenina (2012). Both scores were composed by Dario Marianelli. He is fascinated with the scientific world and has collaborated with Professor Brian Cox

As soloist and chamber musician, he has performed with all the major British orchestras under conductors such as Andrew Litton, Leonard Slatkin, Karl-Heinz Steffens, and Sir Mark Elder as well as numerous leading orchestras overseas.

The meeting takes place on Monday 16 September at 7.45pm in in the Dryburgh Hall, Putney Leisure Centre,  (SW15 1BL).

Putney Music was founded in 1950 by the critic and writer, Ralph Hill as a Gramophone Society, but has grown and developed over the years to become a forum where members and visitors can meet internationally renowned musicians in an informal setting.

It is a society of music lovers which meets fortnightly from September to April to hear some of the world’s most celebrated musicians talk, with recorded and sometimes visual illustrations, about their lives and work.

The meetings provide a rare opportunity to learn how great musicians approach their work, and to hear about the private person behind the public image. Guest speakers come from all fields of music – the concert hall, recital platform, opera, ballet, television and film – and include producers, broadcasters, critics and writers in addition to performers.

Programme 2024-25

16 September
Violinist Jack Liebeck is one of today’s most in-demand performers. He talks to the society’s Vice-President Piers Lane.

30 September
Annual General Meeting – A meeting to discuss the future of Putney Music. Followed by a Musical Quiz.

7 October *
The bass Robert Lloyd CBE can look back on a long career in the opera house and on the concert platform. These days he is a much-respected teacher. He talks to Putney Music’s Vice-President Ian Partridge.

21 October
Boris Giltburg is amongst the most recorded and high-profile of the younger generation of today’s pianists. He is also a familiar online presence as a presenter, educator and popular lecturer. He talks to his recording producer Andrew Keener.

4 November
Matthew Taylor combines life as composer (to date, six symphonies, eight string quartets and several concertos), teacher of conducting at the Menuhin School and lecturer. He talks to Andrew Keener.

18 November
In this centenary year of Sir Neville Marriner’s birth, his son the clarinettist Andrew Marriner is joined by players from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to talk about the orchestra’s early days, ethos and unique position in British orchestral life.

2 December
The composer and oboist Nigel Treherne talks to Peter Avis about his dual career.

20 January
Paul Spicer’s career has spanned conducting, broadcasting and writing. His latest book is an authoritative and much-needed biography on Sir Arthur Bliss. He talks to Andrew Burn. Copies of his book will be on sale.

3 February
On our 75th Anniversary the society welcomes back Sir John Rutter. The composer of music for royalty and some of the most enduring Christmas music of the past five decades talks to Peter Avis.

17 February
The soprano Susan Bullock CBE has enjoyed a career as one of the most distinguished Brünnhildes of the past quarter-century. She talks to Andrew Neill about her career in this and other operatic roles.

3 March
Julian Hardwick, chairman of the Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra, offers his insights into the challenges and high points of running an orchestra of young players in these compromised days of music education in this country.

17 March
Charismatic violinist Charlie Siem combines careers as a model and as a performer with an already large discography of concertos by Beethoven and Bruch as well as sonatas by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Grieg. He talks to his recording producer Andrew Keener.

31 March – Members’ Evening
The return of this popular event at which members choose and talk about a piece of music or recording which has a special resonance for them.

7 April *
The pianist Kathryn Stott, as familiar as a soloist and the duo partner of Yo-Yo-Ma, artistic director and teacher, reflects on her career as a much-recorded artist. She talks to Andrew Keener.

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